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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 9, 2009 (limited) September 18, 2009 (limited) Documentary “Mary Pickford, The Muse of the Movies” traces the life and work of this legendary silent film star, movie pioneer, and keen businesswoman. Pickford’s life (1892-1979) also parallels an even larger story, telling of the “birth of the cinema” itself. Pickford co-created United Artists Studios, spearheaded the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as established the Motion Picture Retirement Home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 3, 2014 (limited) R | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what detective Kataoka has been looking for. Kataoka wants a war between Sanno and the neighboring Hanabishi crime family so they destroy each other....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Photographer and experimental filmmaker Sharon Lockhart offers a visual meditation on the relationship between humans and nature in this non-narrative feature. Shot in the Pine Flat region of the Sierra Nevada foothills, Pine Flat consists of ten uninterrupted ten-minute takes of young people in a natural environment, behaving as if they had no idea they were being filmed. Lockhart’s actors play in the fields, go swimming, chat, sing, push a swing or make out depending on what mood strikes them, and the camera focuses on their unselfconscious behavior as well as the simple, pastoral beauty that surround them....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 42% In Theaters: May 3, 2013 (limited) May 10, 2013 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 33m | Documentary Watch Trailer New York fashion icons like Karl Lagerfeld, Vera Wang, Michael Kors, Giorgio Armani and many more give an inside look at Bergdorf Goodman, the legendary luxury goods store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Narrated by William Fichtner, the tongue-in-cheek titled film explores both the history of the famed Manhattan store as well as the status among the wealthy and celebrated that it now holds....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Country boy Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is brought to 1930s Shanghai by his uncle who wants the boy to become a member of the powerful gang ruled by manipulative Tang (Li Baotian). In fact, Shuisheng will serve Tang’s capricious mistress Bijou (Gong Li), a nightclub singer whom the boss proclaimed the Queen of Shanghai. When the boy’s uncle and the gang’s several other members die during a rival gang’s unsuccessful attempt on Tang’s life, the latter retreats to a remote small island, taking both Bijou and Shuisheng with him and thinking of revenge....

6 votes and 0 Reviews R | 1h 30m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Justin (Cory Monteith) is a hot young star living in Los Angeles who routinely gets swarmed by fanatical girls, while his brother Rory (Dustin Milligan), a former actor, lives in his shadow and promotes a vaguely dubious charity. Louise (Gabrielle Miller) is devoted to the well-being of her schizophrenic brother Jerry (Benjamin Ratner), but his behavior is becoming increasingly turbulent....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 40m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer Lu Chan (Jayden Yuan) is still trying to find his place in Chen Village, the legendary town where everyone is a martial arts master… and Chen-style Tai Chi is forbidden to outsiders. But since he helped save the town from a frightening steam-powered machine, Yuniang (Angelababy), beautiful daughter of Grandmaster Chen (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), agrees to marry Lu Chan and bring him into the family....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Tapestries of Hope” explores filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley’s sojourn to Africa as she investigates the longstanding myths surrounding the power of virgin blood. The film allows us to witness the resiliency of the girls of Betty Makoni’s Girl Child Network who refused to be defined by the abuses committed against them. Founded in 1998, GCN is a girls’ rights activist development organization with a membership of more than 25,000 girls across Zimbabwe....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama While most of the plays and novels of Maurice Maeterlinck have proved virtually impossible to film, the author’s allegorical fantasy The Blue Bird has been translated to the screen no fewer than three times. The first version, directed by Maurice Tourneur and designed by Tourneur’s favorite art director Ben Carre, was arguably the most visually impressive of the three (though the 1940 version, starring Shirley Temple), ran a close second....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy, Romance Nate Cooper has been smitten with Cristabel Abbott since he first laid eyes on her at the impressionable age of six. But before he could try and snuggle up to her at nap time, or maybe send her a valentine, his family moved away. In the intervening years there have been other women in Nate’s life, but none who could measure up to Cristabel....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Elizabeth Heaton enjoys a successful psychiatric practice in upper Manhattan, and a long-term relationship with her Commodities Broker boyfriend, Michael. A weekend retreat to Palm Beach takes an unexpected turn when Elizabeth falls into a passionate one-night stand with Billy Lauder. Wracked by guilt and embarrassment, she returns to New York, concerned about preserving her future with Michael. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller, War During the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, millions of innocents died. The film is the director’s examination of the impact of political events and decisions on society as dictatorships and war turns human beings into mere scarescrows. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller, War During the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, millions of innocents died. The film is the director’s examination of the impact of political events and decisions on society as dictatorships and war turns human beings into mere scarescrows....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 25% 34% 1h 28m | Drama, Thriller Things aren’t going quite as planned for Daniel (Wes Bentley), a struggling young painter. None of his recent pieces are selling, making it hard to make ends meet for his family. When a mysterious and wealthy benefactor (Frank Langella) offers him a lifeline, Daniel struggles to balance his personal relationships with his professional obligations, all while trying to unravel the identity of his reclusive helper....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama A twist of fate brings the national spotlight to a forgotten Texas town and a once famous preacher has an opportunity to regain his former glory or seize one last chance to restore his fractured family. Narrated by his fifteen-year-old daughter, we watch as Adam Wells, a minister driven by the prospect of achieving greatness as the next nationally-syndicated TV Evangelist lays down his opportunity at “celebrity” and even his own life in order to become something even greater… A loving husband and father to his wife and daughter....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi Some years into the future, smokers are confined to the outskirts of cities, and the underworld profits handsomely from the illicit trade in cigarettes. After years of selling on the streets, Cigarette Girl is ready to quit both her own habit and her place in the supply chain. But getting out proves far from easy? With a dark, dashing retro comic-book aesthetic, and an eye-wateringly sexy lead performance from bombshell Cori Dials, this is cult heaven....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Genocide is taking place against the indigenous Assyrians in post-invasion Iraq. Defying Deletion is an emotionally charged documentary that focuses on the struggle of the Assyrian race in Iraq. The history of the Assyrians is rooted deep into the northern Nineveh Plains of Iraq, but their religion is Christian, and after the US led invasion in 2003, they have been the target of ethnic cleansing, cultural genocide and region-based killing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Frank Horner is a solicitor based in a small town in Wiltshire, England. His daughter Helen is leaving home for the first time to go to university and move in with her boyfriend. Frank has to come to terms with parting from his ‘princess’, whom he has smothered with love for over 20 years. How does he cope when something unexpected happens to her? Frank has to search for the answers, which brings him into contact with the murky world of Helen’s dark side....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 55% In Theaters: June 14, 2013 (limited) Comedy Watch Trailer The paths of four dream-chasing college friends cross with an array of colourful characters, from a tough-talking Punjabi female don to a Jugaad Baaz college watchman. Mayhem ensues. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 55% In Theaters: June 14, 2013 (limited) Comedy Watch Trailer The paths of four dream-chasing college friends cross with an array of colourful characters, from a tough-talking Punjabi female don to a Jugaad Baaz college watchman....

8 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 4, 2001 (limited) October 26, 2001 (limited) Horror, Thriller In this modern werewolf tale, sisters Ginger and Brigitte are ostracized by their town because of their morbid inclinations. Soon after being attacked by a wolf, Ginger begins to exhibit strange nocturnal behavior. Now Brigitte must decide whether to save herself or join Ginger in otherworldly doings. Director: John Fawcett...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Comedy, Sci-Fi A man suffering from amnesia wakes up in a desolate barn from a cryogenic freezer to be informed that the planet has been devastated by a world war and reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion. He is thrown into a military mission to help reestablish a livable atmosphere for what’s left of humanity. Soon enough he encounters more than he bargained for: aliens, crazy survivors, inadequate equipment and a pretty unhealthy dose of bad luck....